1. GENERAL

FORWARD Girls Leadership Academy ("FORWARD Girls Leadership Academy" or "we" or "us" or "our")

respects the privacy of everyone ("Sites' visitor" "user" or "you") that uses our website at

https://www.forwardgirlsleadership.com/, as well as other device or online applications related or

connected thereto (collectively, the "Sites").

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The following FORWARD Girls Leadership Academy Privacy Notice ("Privacy Notice") is designed to

inform you, as a user of the Sites, about the types of personal information that FORWARD Girls

Leadership Academy may gather about or collect from you in connection with your use of the Sites. It also

is intended to explain the conditions under which FORWARD Girls Leadership Academy uses and

discloses that personal information, and your rights in relation to that personal information.

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The Sites are hosted in the United States and is subject to U.S. state and federal law. If you are

accessing our Sites from other jurisdictions, please be advised that you are transferring your personal

information to us in the United States, and by using our Sites, you are agreeing to that transfer and use of

your personal information in accordance with this Privacy Notice. You also agree to abide to the

applicable laws of the State of Ohio and U.S. federal law concerning your use of the Sites and your

agreements with us. If your use of the Sites would be unlawful in your jurisdiction, please do not use the

Sites.

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Company Information

FORWARD Girls Leadership Academy

Cleveland, OH

Email: apply@forwardgirlsleadership.com

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2. HOW WE COLLECT AND USE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

FORWARD Girls Leadership Academy gathers personal information from users of the Sites. When you

browse our Sites, subscribe to our services or contact us through various social or web forms you are

voluntarily sharing personal information with us. This personal information also includes various data that

we collect automatically. This may be the user’s Internet Protocol (IP) address, operating system, browser

type and the locations of the Sites the user views right before arriving at, while navigating and

immediately after leaving the Sites. It may also include various technical aspects of user’s computer or

browser and users browsing habits that are collected through cookies.

 

FORWARD Girls Leadership

Academy may analyze various mentioned personal information gathered from or about users to help

FORWARD Girls Leadership Academy better understand how the Sites are used and how to make them

better. By identifying patterns and trends in usage, FORWARD Girls Leadership Academy is able to

better design the Sites to improve users’ experiences, both in terms of content and ease of use. From

time to time, FORWARD Girls Leadership Academy may also release the anonymized information

gathered from the users in the aggregate, such as by publishing a report on trends in the usage of the

Sites.

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When we believe disclosure is appropriate, we may disclose your information to help investigate, prevent

or take other action regarding illegal activity, suspected fraud or other wrongdoing; to protect and defend

the rights, property or safety of FORWARD Girls Leadership Academy, our users, our employees or

others; to comply with applicable law or cooperate with law enforcement; to enforce our Terms of Use or

other agreements or policies, in response to a subpoena or similar investigative demand, a court order or

a request for cooperation from a law enforcement or other government agency; to establish or exercise

our legal rights; to defend against legal claims; or as otherwise required by law. In such cases, we may

raise or waive any legal objection or right available to us. We will notify you if permitted before

undertaking such disclosures.

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FORWARD Girls Leadership Academy reserves the right to transfer all information in its possession to a

successor organization in the event of a merger, acquisition, bankruptcy or other sale of all or a portion of

FORWARD Girls Leadership Academy’s assets. Other than to the extent ordered by a bankruptcy or

other court, the use and disclosure of all transferred information will be subject to this Privacy Notice, or to

a new privacy notice if you are given notice of that new privacy notice and are given an opportunity to

affirmatively opt-out of it.

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3. DO WE USE COOKIES?

A “Cookie” is a string of information which assigns you a unique identification that a website stores on a

user’s computer, and that the user’s browser provides to the website each time the user submits a query

to the website. We use cookies on the Sites to keep track of services you have used, to record

registration information regarding your login name and password, to record your user preferences, to

keep you logged into the Sites and to facilitate purchase procedures. FORWARD Girls Leadership

Academy also uses Cookies to track the pages that users visit during each of the Sites’ sessions, both to

help FORWARD Girls Leadership Academy improve users’ experiences and to help FORWARD Girls

Leadership Academy understand how the Sites is being used. As with other personal information

gathered from users of the Sites, FORWARD Girls Leadership Academy analyzes and discloses in

aggregated form information gathered using Cookies, so as to help FORWARD Girls Leadership

Academy, its partners and others better understand how the Sites is being used. SITES’ USERS WHO

DO NOT WISH TO HAVE COOKIES PLACED ON THEIR COMPUTERS SHOULD SET THEIR

BROWSERS TO REFUSE COOKIES BEFORE ACCESSING THE SITES, WITH THE

UNDERSTANDING THAT CERTAIN FEATURES OF THE SITES MAY NOT FUNCTION PROPERLY

WITHOUT THE AID OF COOKIES. SITES’ USERS WHO REFUSE COOKIES ASSUME ALL

RESPONSIBILITY FOR ANY RESULTING LOSS OF FUNCTIONALITY.

 

FORWARD Girls Leadership Academy currently uses the following cookies on the Sites:

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4. DO WE SHARE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION?

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General Provisions

FORWARD Girls Leadership Academy contractually prohibits its contractors, affiliates, vendors and

suppliers from disclosing any personal information received from FORWARD Girls Leadership Academy,

other than in accordance with this Privacy Notice. These third parties may include advertisers, providers

of games, utilities, widgets and a variety of other third-party applications accessible through the Sites.

FORWARD Girls Leadership Academy neither owns nor controls the third-party websites and applications

accessible through the Sites. Thus, this Privacy Notice does not apply to personal information provided to

or gathered by the third parties that operate them. Before visiting a third party, or using a third-party

application, whether by means of a link on the Sites, directly through the Sites or otherwise, and before

providing any personal information to any such third party, users should inform themselves of the privacy

policies and practices (if any) of the third party responsible for those Sites or applications, and should

take those steps necessary to, in those users’ discretion, protect their privacy.

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Analytics

We may partner with selected third parties to allow tracking technology on the Sites, which will enable

them to collect data about how you interact with the Sites and our services over time. This personal

information may be used to, among other things, analyze and track data, determine the popularity of

certain content and better understand online activity.

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Social Media

We may use hyperlinks on the Sites which will redirect you to a social network if you click on the

respective link. However, when you click on a social plug-in, such as Facebook’s "Like" button or Twitter’s

“tweet” button that particular social network’s plugin will be activated and your browser will directly

connect to that provider’s servers. If you do not use these buttons none of your data will be sent to the

respective social network’s plugin providers. To illustrate this further, imagine the scenario where you

click on the Facebook’s "Like" button on the Sites. Facebook will receive your IP address, the browser

version and screen resolution, and the operating system of the device you have used to access the Sites.

Settings regarding privacy protection can be found on the websites of these social networks and are not

within our control.

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Third-Party Service Providers

We may share your personal information, which may include your name and contact information

(including email address) with our authorized service providers that perform certain services on our

behalf. These services may include fulfilling orders, providing customer service and marketing assistance,

performing business and sales analysis, supporting the Sites’ functionality and supporting contests,

sweepstakes, surveys and other features offered through the Sites. We may also share your name,

contact personal information and credit card personal information with our authorized service providers

who process credit card payments. These service providers may have access to personal information

needed to perform their functions but are not permitted to share or use such personal information for any

other purpose. You can contact us to receive our current list of providers.

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If you have opted in to receiving marketing communication from us then FORWARD Girls Leadership

Academy may provide your personal information to third parties, with your consent, so that those third

parties may directly contact you about additional products and services. To cease having your personal

information used for marketing communication purposes, you can:

• Email us at apply@forwardgirlsleadership.com

• Opt out by clicking on the unsubscribe button found in the footer of our emails

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5. MOBILE DEVICE ADDITIONAL TERMS

• Mobile Device. If you use a mobile device to access the Sites or download any of our applications,

we may collect device personal information (such as your mobile device ID, model and manufacturer),

operating system, version personal information and IP address.

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• Geo-Location Personal Information. Unless we have received your prior consent, we do not

access or track any location-based personal information from your mobile device at any time while

downloading or using our mobile application or our services, except that it may be possible for

FORWARD Girls Leadership Academy to determine from an IP address the geographic location of

your point of connectivity, in which case we may gather and use such general location data.

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• Push Notifications. We send you push notifications if you choose to receive them, letting you know

when someone has sent you a message or for other service-related matters. If you wish to opt-out

from receiving these types of communications, you may turn them off in your device’s settings.

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• Mobile Analytics. We use mobile analytics software to allow us to better understand the

functionality of our mobile software on your phone. This software may record personal information,

such as how often you use the application, the events that occur within the application, aggregated

usage, performance data and where the application was downloaded from. We do not link the

personal information we store within the analytics software to any personal information you submit

within the mobile application.

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6. SECURITY

We take the security of your personal information seriously and use reasonable electronic, personnel and

physical measures to protect it from loss, theft, alteration or misuse. However, please be advised that

even the best security measures cannot fully eliminate all risks. We cannot guarantee that only authorized

persons will view your personal information. We are not responsible for third-party circumvention of any

privacy settings or security measures.

 

We are dedicated to protect all personal information on the Sites as is necessary. However, you are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your personal information by keeping your password and computer/mobile device access confidential. If you have an account with FORWARD Girls Leadership Academy and believe someone has gained unauthorized access to it or your account please change your

password as soon as possible. If you lose control of your account, you should notify us immediately.

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7. PRIVACY RIGHTS - CALIFORNIA USERS

If you are under 18 years of age

If you have registered account with FORWARD Girls Leadership Academy, you have the right to request

the removal of unwanted personal information that you publicly post on our Sites. To request the removal

of such information, please contact us using the contact information provided below. Make sure to include

your account's email address and a statement that you reside in California.

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"Shine the Light Law"

California Civil Code Section 1798.83, also known as the "Shine The Light" law, permits our users who

are California residents to request and obtain from us, once a year and free of charge, personal

information about the personal information (if any) we disclosed to third parties for direct marketing

purposes in the preceding calendar year. If applicable, this personal information would include a list of the

categories of the personal information that was shared and the names and addresses of all third parties

with which we shared personal information in the immediately preceding calendar year. If you are a

California resident and would like to make such a request, please submit your request in writing to the

address listed below.

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8. CHILDREN

The Children's Online Privacy Protection Act ("COPPA") protects the online privacy of children under 13

years of age. We do not knowingly collect or maintain personal information from anyone under the age of

13, unless or except as permitted by law. Any person who provides personal information through the

Sites represents to us that he or she is 13 years of age or older. If we learn that personal information has

been collected from a user under 13 years of age on or through the Sites, then we will take the

appropriate steps to cause this personal information to be deleted. If you are the parent or legal guardian

of a child under 13 who has become a member of the Sites or has otherwise transferred personal

information to the Sites, please contact FORWARD Girls Leadership Academy using our contact personal

information below to have that child's account terminated and personal information deleted.

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9. DO-NOT-TRACK NOTICE

Most web browsers and some mobile operating systems include a Do-Not-Track ("DNT") feature or

setting you can activate to signal your privacy preference not to have data about your online browsing

activities monitored and collected. Because there is not yet a common understanding of how to interpret

the DNT signal, the Sites currently do not respond to DNT browser signals or mechanisms.

Privacy Notice (Rev. 13461BC) 5 / 610. GOVERNING LAW

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Disputes over privacy issues contained in this Privacy Notice will be governed by the law of the State of

Ohio. You also agree to abide by any limitation on damages contained in our Terms of Use, or other

agreement that we have with you.

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11. PRIVACY NOTICE CHANGES

FORWARD Girls Leadership Academy may, in its sole discretion, change this Privacy Notice from time to

time. Any and all changes to FORWARD Girls Leadership Academy’s Privacy Notice will be reflected on

this page and the date of the new version will be stated at the top of this Privacy Notice. Unless stated

otherwise, our current Privacy Notice applies to all personal information that we have about you and your

account. Users should regularly check this page for any changes to this Privacy Notice. FORWARD Girls

Leadership Academy will always post new versions of the Privacy Notice on the Sites. However,

FORWARD Girls Leadership Academy may, as determined in its discretion, decide to notify users of

changes made to this Privacy Notice via email or otherwise. Accordingly, it is important that users always

maintain and update their contact personal information.

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12. CONTACT

If you have any questions regarding our Privacy Notice, please contact us at:

FORWARD Girls Leadership Academy

__________

Cleveland, OH

__________

Email: apply@forwardgirlsleadership.com

Phone:

__________

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